I don't care if it's not really synced to the music; that's the most amazing footage of them I've ever seen.
Attentive readers are doubtless aware that those guys are pretty much my fave band of all time, so it will come as no surprise that seeing that for the first time after all these years has been something akin to a religious experience for me. 😎
I mean -- wow. 😎 😎
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I don't mean to burst your balloons but I really think it's 'AI' generated. So it's a wonderful fantasy cartoon of the Byrds in concert.
Captain Al
I think it's real.
I just read some of the comments on the Youtube site. Apparently it's AI enhanced footage of a real film. I'm skeptical but until I learn otherwise I will go with your interpretation.
The confused Captain Al
Okay, yeah -- it's enhanced footage of a show they did in Fresno in 1965. It's really them, not computer generated them.
Apparently the original footage -- B&W and silent 8MM -- was sold as the equivalent of a bootleg back in the day. Info here: https://byrdsflyght.blogspot.com/2020/12/lockdown-byrds-finds-4.html
Very cool indeed. I listened to a good bootleg this morning from 1970 with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers. It is well worth checking out.
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-flying-byrds-brothers-fly-higher.html?m=1
- Paul in DK
Original footage here: https://youtu.be/nA8lor29G18?si=I9scGTz_wwQuzkaw
That's just creepy. As real as a Mar a Largo makeover. I haven't tried counting the fingers yet, but I be there are a few extra.
I would meet AI halfway and call it a restoration in progress.
The soft as a baby's bottom skin textures are just off-putting. Indeed if the source footage is legit- then we claim half a victory. AI is just flippin' everywhere. Any provenance of the source, Steve? Does Mr Smurfstools add any context?
Steve:
We were both correct, original live footage enhanced by AI.
Captain Al
Video aside, can we just agree that is one of the best RECORDINGS ever made? It is everything I love about folk-rock.
Jai Guru Dave
it sort of resembles what I imagine the holographic ABBA show looked like - for a filmed performance I like the1992 Dylan 30th anniversary show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Df39PjkwA
McGuinn gets the first verse, Harrison the last - then a guitar solo from Neil Young finishes it - the bandleader is GE Smith
I saw the Byrds live once, in Boston - what sticks in my mind from then is This Wheel's On Fire
I stopped by early this morning and that clip, however generated, put a smile both on my face and in my noggin.
God, Crosby with that baby face hiding his
Eddie Haskell side. 😉
I went out and bought McGuinn's rectangle, blue tint sunglasses - somehow they looked better on him.
When I was a kid my friends and I speculated that Jim's Rickenbacker
had a yellow "toilex" cover. today I learned that while a natural finish Maple he called it the ™Palomino" because of its golden appearance.
Steve watched a 'tube today - 5 things I know about J/M and his Rick...
He added a Vox compression,now available on his signature series.
Is that the model in the Floor Models hand ?
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When discussing The Byrds performing live we should always distinguish between the original Byrds and the Clarence White Byrds. Two very wonderful but different bands. Great studio vs. great live performance.
Captain Al
(I'm warning you, don't get me wound up discussing The Byrds!!!
Saw them with Clarence @ '73
That blonde-colored Rickenbacker 12-string seems to be the same edition that my late great bandmate/12-string ace Andy Pasternack played in the Floor Models. I'm kinda floored looking at it. 😎
(Untitled) 1970... 😉
This is the lineup that woke up early one morning in fall 1965 to fulfill a longstanding contract to play in my high school auditorium. In the interim , having released the #1 song in the known world, they were plausibly none too thrilled to be there for a buck seventy-five. But they soldiered on for us teenybops -- all the early hits and hits to be -- unless you count Croz's sullen demeanor and passive-aggressive stage actions. But as I say, it was early ... almost noon.
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